I am an EECS PhD student at MIT, advised by Erik Demaine in CSAIL and Zach Lieberman at the Media Lab. My work has been generously supported by the MIT MAD Design Fellowship, the NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship, and the MIT Stata Family Presidential Fellowship.
I develop mathematical abstractions and computational tools that enable new ways of designing and fabricating. At the moment, I am particularly interested in the relationship between computation and craft, especially in creating expressive and personalized fashion.
My time is devoted in equal parts to research, art, and teaching.
How can we design garments for change and reuse? Refashion introduces a library of building blocks and a digital design tool that supports mixing and matching them to create garments of different sizes and styles.
How can we thread tubes with a single string to achieve the desired structure when pulled taut? We present a polynomial-time algorithm for computing minimum-length threadings via a graph-theoretic perspective.
How can we create constellations with unconventional star arrangements? We propose a method that automatically generates constellations from graph-based descriptions, using circle packings as scaffolding.
